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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123284853 Title: Lost genius : the curious and tragic story of an extraordinary musical prodigy Author: Kevin Bazzana Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780786720880 0786720883 OCLC:123284853

  
  

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Lost genius : the curious and tragic story of an extraordinary musical prodigy

Author:	Kevin Bazzana
Publisher:	New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st Carroll & Graf edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyhazi was a remarkable piano prodigy: composing at three, performing publicly at six, he became the subject of the first book devoted to the scientific study of a single prodigy at thirteen." "Managed by his super-domineering mother, he was paraded before Europe's artistic and social elite and praised by many of the great musicians of the day. As a teenager, his idiosyncratic, intensely Romantic playing electrified audiences and astounded critics in Europe and America. But by twenty-five he had all but disappeared. Exploited, mismanaged, and infantilized, he was reduced to penury, occasionally sleeping on the subway, or a park bench." "In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, where he worked briefly for United Artists, playing in some of the early "talkies." Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous - he struggled even to dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and candidly declared himself "addicted to Liszt, oral sex, and alcohol - not necessarily in that order."" "He was rediscovered playing in an old church in the 1970s, and enjoyed a sensational and controversial renaissance, but by the time he died, in 1987, he had slipped back into obscurity."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Nyiregyházi, Ervin, -- 1903-1987. Nyiregyházi, Ervin. Pianists -- Biography. View all subjects
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